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Sure - people would get mad. I agree. But it seems like they wouldn’t stay mad for long and there wouldn’t be any significant economic impact of them just switching to other services. This is not the same as say if Apple suddenly stopped selling iPhones and Macs or Microsoft stopped providing Azure services.
Only EU govs have an axe to grind against Facebook because they have to not make GDPR look like a joke. The end-users, they still want to use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. And they will be quiet vocal if those things stop working.
Re: Facebook says it will stop operating in Europe if regulators don’t back down
#11This is an interesting perspective. I had the sense that people in the EU were not very positive about American businesses anymore, but you seem to be suggesting this is overblown.